You are thinking about a utopia my friend, thing is the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. You forget to take into account human nature/feelings. Some of the key points you make won’t happen, making the rest useless and the world in 2050 will be the same or worse than today. You won’t live to see it, but I will.

Thanks for your comment. I always take full account of human nature in my work, and try to work out the net impact of its various forces as other things change. I’ll be giving a talk on the forces of utopia v a new dark age next weekend in Lucerne, explaining exactly that balance. I don’t subscribe to a utopian future at all, because of the other things that are likely to spoil it, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a choice, nor that the resultant future can’t be good for everyone, with the poor still having less than the rich, but a lot more than today.

People need to be very worried. Most of your argument is based on where people will live. That isn’t the most important problem we will be facing. It’s where we are going to farm. Only 30% of the land on Earth can be used for agriculture. That number is going to drop due to YES, population growth and the rising sea levels. Global warming is very real. Also you talk about technology being able to magically fix everything. Well I don’t see a sustainable renweable energy source coming our way anytime soon. Science can’t fix everything. We shouldn’t rely on people in the future to fix the mistakes we are making now. You say the more people, the more brains. Most of those brains will be like yours and those certainly aren’t going to get use anywhere. This article has infurriated me. I’m a freshman in high school and I have more sense than you on this subject. You didn’t do your research because if you had there would be absolutely no way you would still hold your opinion. I seriously hope readers don’t follow your twisted accusations. The last thing the world need is more arrogant people.

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I’m an all-round futurist/futurologist with a sound engineering foundation and over 1800 inventions. I spend most of my time writing futures material for white papers or to accompany PR campaigns, but I’ve also delivered well over 1000 conference presentations and appeared over 700 times on TV and Radio, often following writing I’ve done for PR campaigns. I’ve written hundreds of commissioned reports, press articles and seven books, most recently Society Tomorrow, Space Anchor, Total Sustainability and You Tomorrow (2nd Edn). I sometimes undertake phone or face-to-face consultancy on any aspect of the future, usually from a technology perspective, using over 30 years experience as a futurologist and engineer. I have demonstrated about 85% accuracy when looking 10-15 years ahead.

I am a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the World Academy for Arts and Science and the World innovation Foundation.